14 DAY TRIAL // Not too long ago, 35-year-old Kara Harrison and her husband Ian decided to take some time to visit the city of London in the UK. Little did they know that, when wanting to return to their home town in Scotland, they would have legal trouble because of some Nutella.
Long story short, it appears that, when Kara Harrison and her husband Ian tried to board a plane and fly back to the town of South Queensferry near Edinburgh, authorities saw fit to browse through the woman's hand luggage and confiscated two jars of the heavenly chocolate spread.
Even weirder, it appears that the Nutella was confiscated because staff at the London City Airport considered it a terror risk. Thus, the 35-year-old woman and her husband were told that the chocolate spread was simply too dangerous for them to be allowed to board the plane with it.
How the incident played out
Kara Harrison says that, having arrived at the London City Airport, she and her husband let authorities scan their hand luggage. The two were quite eager to board their flight back to Scotland and did not expect to have any trouble making it through customs.
Hence, Kara Harrison, who is now pregnant with her second child, was quite taken aback when she was asked to step out of line and explain why she had two jars of Nutella in her luggage. Needless to say, her husband Ian was left quite confused as well
The two were even more surprised when they were told that the Nutella chocolate spread was to be confiscated because it was a liquid and consequently posed a terror risk. “They told me the chocolate was dangerous and had to be confiscated. I was distraught,” the woman says, as cited by Mirror.
“I explained that they were Nutella spread and that they were Christmas presents. But they said that as they were a liquid they'd have to be confiscated. It seemed completely daft. It was obvious what they were and that they didn't pose a security threat,” she further details the experience.
Authorities claim they did nothing wrong
Apparently, it was back in 2006 that the Department for Transport in the UK banned the amount of liquids, pastes or gels people can bring with them on a plane. The measure was implemented following an attempt to destroy an aircraft using liquids carried aboard in a handbag.
Hence, the London City Airport authorities who confiscated 35-year-old Kara Harrison's Nutella chocolate spread claim that they did nothing wrong. On the contrary, they say that they simply did their job not to allow any passengers carrying potentially dangerous liquids aboard a flight.
